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FR/GB: Unité-class corvette (HMS Surprise, 38 guns), 1794-1802
$3.00
Made famous by Patrick O’Brian‘s Aubrey-Maturin series, HMS Surprise was first launched as a French corvette and lead ship of her class.
This model comes with options for both her French and British armaments.
Oversized for her designation as a corvette, Unité is a ship that’s hard to place – at times being considered an unrated ship and a proper frigate outright. In British service, she was rated as both a sixth and a fifth rate at various times.
Launched in 1794, Unité was captured in 1796 by Royal Navy Captain Thomas Fremantle while she was operating as a packet ship bound for North Africa.
Her most famous real-world exploit was recapturing HMS Hermione, which had been surrendered to the Spanish by a mutineering crew.
Surprise was sold in 1802, after the Treaty of Amiens and the subsequent downsizing of the Royal Navy.
Henry Turner
Building historically accurate Age of Sail models based on original ship plans.
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